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we have a lot of geniuses in our midst in america. we just do not pay that much academic scholarly attention to them because they seem to close bouras. >> are you as interested in pop culture? >> no, i am not as interested. i have great regard. i think that pop culture is a legitimate source of history in the making. it is a mirror that is held up to was. i would be more nostalgic. remember the day that elvis died was the day that journalism changed in america. that evening, famously, walter cronkite did not lead the evening news with the death of elvis presley. i think that the other networks did. cronkite was the only one. a purist that the traditional view that this is not news. clearly the trend cents. >> back then, you had a magic bus that went around the united states with kids in it and you took it to many spots. >> i went to the university of new orleans and continued the majic bus program. we took students on these semester's across america where we would go to nebraska or california and walk martin luther king's path in atla
we have a lot of geniuses in our midst in america. we just do not pay that much academic scholarly attention to them because they seem to close bouras. >> are you as interested in pop culture? >> no, i am not as interested. i have great regard. i think that pop culture is a legitimate source of history in the making. it is a mirror that is held up to was. i would be more nostalgic. remember the day that elvis died was the day that journalism changed in america. that evening,...
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you don't have to be born in america to make up america. you have people in america from different cultures. without that, america would be lifeless. >> to see all the winning entries in the competition, the visit studentscam.org. this morning, we will talk with the president of the federation of the immigration reform and a founder and executive director of america's voice about the new immigration law and arizona and the implications.
you don't have to be born in america to make up america. you have people in america from different cultures. without that, america would be lifeless. >> to see all the winning entries in the competition, the visit studentscam.org. this morning, we will talk with the president of the federation of the immigration reform and a founder and executive director of america's voice about the new immigration law and arizona and the implications.
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rice is one of the best schools in america. i love teaching there. we're one of the top 20 universities by "us news." we haven't been hit as badly as some places by the great recession, so i think things are going well. >> what are you writing? >> right now i'm working on two books. one comes out this year called "the quiet world: saving alaska's wilderness kingdom from 1909 to 2010." at the end of it it's about the arctic refuge anwr, but it's really a fight to save wild alaska following up on my theodore roosevelt book. so i'm looking at charles sheldon's efforts to save mount mckinley, bob marshall who created the wilderness society's efforts to save what's today gates of the arctic national park. the whole group of people that lived with wolves and things up in the arctic that ended up getting this great arctic refuge where the coastal plain is where our polar bear den, the great caribou herd of america is. the arctic is our serengeti for wildlife. and then the whole aleutian island chain where they tested two nuclear weapons on the aleutians. th
rice is one of the best schools in america. i love teaching there. we're one of the top 20 universities by "us news." we haven't been hit as badly as some places by the great recession, so i think things are going well. >> what are you writing? >> right now i'm working on two books. one comes out this year called "the quiet world: saving alaska's wilderness kingdom from 1909 to 2010." at the end of it it's about the arctic refuge anwr, but it's really a fight to...